Today, Marissa shares a deleted scene from Scarlet, made of awesome! It’s quite long, but .. it’s totally worth it!! Oh and then thanks to the awesome people from Macmillian, I have an amazing Giveaway for you guys!

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A Deleted Scene from Scarlet By Marissa Meyer

Yesterday I visited A Backwards Story (http://abackwardsstory.blogspot.com/) with a list of 10 Things that Changed from Scarlet’s First Draft—and a few of those things come into play in this scene, originally found in the first draft and entirely deleted by the second.

In the first draft of Scarlet, Wolf—a street fighter—had amnesia, and Scarlet was trying to help him figure out who he was. Together they made the trek to the local police station to look through the files of missing persons, and this is what happened. It bears very little resemblance to anything that now happens in the final book, but I still think it’s a fun scene.

Enjoy!

A Deleted (Unrevised and Unedited) Scene from Scarlet’s First Draft

They took a hovercab to the police station in the frosty late-morning. Wolf seemed to remember enough of society’s rules of politeness to hold the hover door open for Scarlet, and yet she couldn’t shake the feeeling that he was supremely grumpy for some reason. Though he always turned quickly away, she swore she’d caught him half-glaring, half-pouting at her since they’d left the apartment. It was unnerving, and a little irritating.

When he did it again on their way into the station, she finally paused on the sidewalk. “What?”

He blinked. “What?”

“Why do you keep giving me that look?”

“What look?”

“Like I—did something. You know what look I mean.” She fisted a hand on her hip. “What’s wrong?”

“Yeah. It’s thirty degrees out here,” she said, analyzing his own thin, plain T-shirt. “It wouldn’t hurt you to put on a jacket, you know.”

Still looking cranky, he fixed his eyes on her hands. “I don’t like the gloves.”

“What? What’s wrong with my—”

Turning away from her, Wolf pushed his way through the station’s door before she could finish her argument.

Scarlet stamped a foot in frustration and looked down at her black cashmere gloves. “My gloves are fine,” she muttered to herself and followed him in.

Inside, they were hit with a wall of heat, almost uncomfortably warm after the brisk autumn heat outside. Scarlet was tempted by her own pride to keep her gloves on anyway, but as she brushed past Wolf toward the main desk, she instead ripped the gloves off and smacked him on the arm with them.

“I’ll be right with you,” said a man in uniform, busy with paperwork.

Scarlet nodded at him and surveyed the police station. She’d never been there before. The walls were painted basic taupe, a wallscreen was muted in small waiting area, and there was a mixture of uniformed police and civilians wandering around.

“That’s better,” Wolf murmured at her side.

Scarlet glared up at him, bunching her gloves in a fist. “Don’t talk to me.”

“What?”

Ignoring him, she folded her arms on top of the counter and waited for the police officer to turn his attention to her.

Suddenly, Wolf wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her harshly against his chest.

Scarlet gasped and glanced up at him, instinctively pushing at his hold, but she may as well have been fighting against iron chains. And he seemed unaware of her irritation, his piercing eyes caught on something on the other side of the open room.

Turning, Scarlet followed his gaze, and then gasped as she found herself captured in the leering, bone-chilling smile of a man in a community jail cell.

Her heart stopped.

The man seemed pleased with her reaction and grinned at her, swiping a tongue along his upper teeth. His hands, hanging out past the bars that confined him, flexed as if imagining what it would be like to feel her.

But it was not the sick grin that had stunned her. It was his eyes. They were Wolf’s eyes. The same penetrating brightness. The same tint of emerald green.

Otherwise, they looked nothing alike. The man in the cell was shorter, stockier in his proportions, and had pitch-black hair pulled into a low ponytail.

But the eyes were unmistakable.

As she gaped at him, the man slightly tilted his head back and made a great show of sniffing delightedly at the air. Wolf’s arms tensed, his fingers pressing into the soft skin of Scarlet’s arm.

She shivered.

“Thank you for waiting.”

Sucking in a breath, Scarlet was relieved to turn to the policeman. He seemed to notice her surprise and Wolf’s fervent glare and turned toward the holding cell.

Seeing that the object of their attention was a prisoner already locked away, he shrugged it off and returned a polite smile to Scarlet. “How can I help you?”

She gulped. “Yes, hello,” she said, trying to wiggle her away out of Wolf’s hold without making it too obvious. His arms didn’t budge. “Uh… we were wondering if you have a… uh… file for missing persons?”

“Have you filed a report about the missing person?”

“Well… no, you see, actually…” She tried to jerk her thumb at Wolf, but it was too confined to be much more tham a limp gesture. “…he’s the missing person. But he has amnesia and doesn’t know who he is or anything, so we thought if we could search through other reports of missing people, then…”

The man nodded. “Odd. You’re the second case of amnesia I’ve heard of this week,” he said. “But yes, of course we’d be happy to let you go through the files. Has he been to a hospital?”

“No,” Scarlet said. “But he seems fine.”

“Amnesia is most often caused by head injuries or severe traumas. It wouldn’t hurt to get him looked at, to head-off any future complications.”

“Of course. We’ll do that, thanks.”

The man nodded, dropped his gaze to Wolf’s hand, making white indentations on Scarlet’s arm, then back up at her. “You can follow me.”

“Okay,” she said with a smile, then turned to glare at Wolf. “Snap out of it,” she hissed.

When he still failed to respond, she stomped on his foot.

Wolf gasped and pulled back, dropping his gaze to hers. She’d been hoping for something more along the lines of a yelp of pain, but mute attention worked too. “Snap out of it,” she repeated.

“I don’t like the way he’s looking at you,” he growled, low, as if afraid the man on the other side of the room could hear them.

“Well I don’t like the way you’re holding me like some neurotic, overprotective boyfriend,” she said, struggling out of his hold. This time, he let her go, his expression showing signs of hurt, but she refused to acknowledge them.

“He’s in a jail cell, Wolf. He can’t do anything to me. Now come on.” Grabbing his elbow, she pulled him off toward where the policeman was waiting for them. She flashed the man another grateful grin, hoping he caught the apology contained within, as they passed.

“Take a seat here and I’ll bring you the files,” the policeman said when he’d led them to a small meeting room with a round meeting table. Scarlet gladly took a seat and pulled Wolf down beside her.

Wolf’s jaw flexed. “I don’t know him. But I would have ripped his throat out if he hadn’t been behind those bars.”

“Oh yes, that would have been productive,” Scarlet said, rolling her eyes.

The policeman returned and set a palmscreen and a handful of data chips on the table. “Here you go,” he said. “Let me know if you need any help.”

Scarlet thanked him and took the palmscreen, switching it on while Wolf continued to glare at the table and twitch his leg.

Finally, Scarlet reached beneath the table and put a hand on his knee. It jerked to a halt. “Don’t you ever just hold still?” she muttered, setting the screen on the desk and inserting the first chip. She could feel Wolf’s gaze turn on her, but refused to return it.

“I—”

She slid her gaze along the table toward him, but when he didn’t continue, she opened up the search screen on the palm to look for specific characteristics: male, age 20 to 29, brunette, missing within the last thirty days.

“I feel, sometimes…” he started again.

Pursing her lips, Scarlet forced herself to meet his gaze.

He shifted uncomfortably in the seat. “Like I’m filled with… energy,” he said. When Scarlet didn’t respond, he continued, with hand gestures, “Like… like I’m filled with some sort of… burning… power. And it makes me… that’s why I fight, like I do. Because when I… release… this energy, I… I can’t stop it. And I just…” He flexed his fists on the table.

Reaching forward, Scarlet placed a hand firmly on top of his knuckles and held it there until she felt him relax.

“And that’s why you’re always moving?”

“Yes. But…”

She slowly pulled her hand away from him. “But what, Wolf?”

“But being near you. You calm me, somehow. Your voice. Your… your scent. Even your eyes.” Voice dropping to a whisper, he looked up at her, his eyes sharp, but he quickly turned away.

Scarlet gulped and slowly turned back to the screen, but it was hard to focus.

“It’s okay,” she said, turning to him. “You didn’t say anything wrong. It doesn’t make any sense to me, but if I calm you, then I calm you. Good. I’m glad.”

Hunching over the table, Wolf dragged a hand roughly through his hair.

“All right, try to pay attention,” she said, scooting toward him and holding the screen so they could both see. She began flipping through the entries, glancing at each picture of each missing person, before moving onto the next. A dozen pictures later, she paused and set the screen down on the table. “So if you’re so calm around me, then why did you flip out just now with the guy in the cell?”

“I didn’t flip out.”

“You didn’t?”

“No. If I’d done what my instincts told me to do, I would have killed him.”

She blinked at him, dragging in a shaky breath. “You probably shouldn’t say stuff like that in a police station,” she said a moment later, then returned her attention to the screen.

After a hundred entries, she took out the chip and switched to the next one. Wolf said nothing, just watched her silently, his gaze occasionally focusing on the images of missing men on the screen.

“Maybe,” he said after a long silence between them, “I am not missing.”

“No? What do you think you are, then?”

“Found.”

She set the screen down and looked at Wolf again. “You didn’t just fall from the sky, Wolf. You had to come from somewhere. Don’t you want to know where that is?”

He shrugged. “I’m fond of where I am now.”

“Well,” she said, lifting the screen again, “maybe that’s because you don’t have anything else to compare it to.”

She finished the chip and put in the third, and final, chip that the policeman had brought them. Wolf said nothing as she sifted through each of the entries, until, finally, she had to resign and put the screen down.

She heaved a sigh. “Okay. You evidently have not been reported as a missing person in the great Parisian area.”

“Now what?” he asked.

“I don’t know.” She sighed and rubbed her fingers along her forehead. “I need to go home and get ready for work.”

Scarlet

Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own.

As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.

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119 Responses to “Scarlet by Marissa Meyer Blog Tour & Giveaway”

I loved Cinder, and I can’t wait for the release of Scarlet! I really look forward to being introduced to Scarlet & Wolf, but I think what I’m interested in most is getting back to Cinder’s story, seeing her character develop further, and maybe some more development between her and Prince Kai as well! I’m so glad that it’ll finally be out next week!

I loved CINDER, and I’m super excited for SCARLET. I can’t even being to imagine what’s going to happen in it, but I know it’s going to be good!Angie F. recently posted..Showcase Sunday [62: Happy Dance Edition]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVED CINDER!!! I’m already kinda dying inside because I haven’t read it yet . . . And the cliffhanger at the end of the story! I need to know more about the alien race in Scarlet. Totally.Grace Lo recently posted..Cover Revea/Giveaway: The Fallen Stars by Stephanie Keyes

I have not read Cinder yet, but I really want to! I bought my best friend a copy for her birthday because we both love fairy tale retellings. I am also really excited to read it because I heard that the first draft was produced during National Novel Writing Month, which I’ve participated in 4 times. It’s just inspiring to see that a great deal of effort and revision can turn raw material into a successful book! Thanks for the great giveaway!

Cinder was one of my favorite reads of 2012. I have been dying to read Scarlet. I’ve read all the teasers and excerpts I’ve come across. It’s my most anticipated read of 2013. I just know it will be amazing.
Thanks so much for the awesome giveaway!

So. Is it any wonder I’m madly in love with Wolf after that excerpt? He’s just quirky and vulnerable and lethal all wrapped up in one package and I adore him. This was an awesome deleted scene, thank you so much for sharing. My day is now complete because I’ve had my Wolf fix:)

Cinder’s been on my to read list for a while…too many books, too little time! Thanks to all the wonderful reviews, I’m pretty sure it’s my sort of book and I’ll love it. And I’m looking forward to Scarlet because the cover is so pretty!

I did read Cinder and I can’t wait to read Scarlet! I loved Cinder. My hopes and fears?? My hopes are for lots of Cinder to be in Scarlet and of course my fears are that everything is going to be crazy bad for the characters I love! Lets hope not. 🙂 Thanks for the post & giveaway!

I took Cinder with me on holiday and was so engrossed that I am sure I was absolutely no fun for my traveling companion for the day it took me to read the book. I loved it hard and can not wait for Scarlet.

I absolutely fell in love with Cinder from the moment that I heard about it. I was lucky enough to win an ARC of it for review before it was out on shelves. I devoured it within a day. I just absolutely could not put it down. I am hoping that Scarlet is going to be the same way. 🙂

I loved Cider and I can’t wait to Scarlet!! I’m kind of nervous that it won’t live up to my expectations because so many second books don’t, but from what I’ve heard so far hopefully it will be good! 🙂

I’ve bookmarked this page so I can come and read this as soon as I’m done with Scarlet! Really excited about it now! Thanks for sharing. 🙂Sam @ Realm of Fiction recently posted..Review: Everbound by Brodi Ashton

I find this post so inspiring! It’s always an inspiration to see other people’s writing process, especially those who are successful. I LOVED Cinder and can’t wait to read Scarlet. It’s so neat to see how your story can change for the better. Thanks for sharing!WriterAlina recently posted..Caves of Steel

Loooooved Cinder and I can’t wait for Scarlet. I’m excited to read about another character but I need Cinder and Kai in this story, a lot! I have no idea what’s in store for Scarlet, kinda been avoiding a lot of details about it ’cause I want to be surprised, as long as it’s as good as Cinder, I’m up for anything happening!

I haven’t read Cinder yet, but I really REALLY want to! I just need an excuse to finally do it and winning would be a great one lmao. I have only heard good things about this series and I cannot wait to start it!

I like the helpful information you provide in your articles. I will bookmark your blog and test again right here regularly. I’m fairly sure I’ll be informed lots of new stuff right here! Best of luck for the next!

Woo hoo! I can’t wait to read Scarlet! I really enjoyed Cinder. I hope Scarlet has a likable MC, a swoony romantic lead, lots of action, and more info about the disease and the awful (in a good way!) queen. I’d also love to see Cinder and her friends again.Small Review recently posted..Book Review: Shadowlands by Kate Brian

I admit, I skipped over the deleted scene because I’m trying not to spoil myself in anyway.

I did read Cinder, and I loved it. It’s so unlike anything I’ve read, and I have a thing for fairytale retellings. Add in some science fiction and an evil queen? Plus such a great main character? Yeah, I was a goner from page 1.Leeanna recently posted..Goodbye January, Hello February

I read Cinder and I’m sooo excited for Scarlet. The way the Prince reacted to Cinder at the end crushed my heart. I really hope he changes his mind about her, especially since she’s who he’s been looking for the whole book. Can’t wait for Scarlet (:

I haven’t read Cinder yet, but I do have it on my bookshelf somewhere and I keep looking at it since everyone has such incredible things to say about it. I think I’ve been secretly waiting for Scarlet to come out that way I can read them back to back 🙂Helen @ The Fiction Conniption recently posted..New Blogger Template Design

I actually just finshed reading Scarlet the other night. I was afraid of being disappointed going into it because all the rave reviews had set my expectations high, but I ended up loving. I still like Cinder better, though 😛Jasmine Rose recently posted..My Next Five {2}

I read and <3<3<3<3<3<3 CINDER so hard I freaked out and started plotting a YA fairytale retelling of another famous fairytale based on Marissa's book alone. If you don't believe how much I love CINDER, check out this blog post I did:

Pretty rad, huh? Yup. I'm in the paperback. I can't believe it! I can't wait to read book 2, and find out where we go with SCARLET and CINDER. I have high hopes for this sequel and I think Marissa will deliver. Thank you very much for this chance to win!G. Donald Cribbs recently posted..STAINED by Author Cheryl Rainfield Cover Reveal

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